ICANN has recently announced a technical issue with its new gTLD registration system, TAS. As a result, the company has shut down the application filing system until next Tuesday. The new gTLD application window has also been extended to April 20, according to the company that earlier planned to make April 12 the final day when a new top level domain application can be filed.
ICANN has mailed a statement which says:
"Recently, we received a report of unusual behavior with the operation of the TAS system. We then identified a technical issue with the TAS system software."
"ICANN is taking the most conservative approach possible to protect all applicants and allow adequate time to resolve the issue. Therefore, TAS will be shut down until Tuesday at 23:59 UTC - unless otherwise notified before that time."
"In order to ensure all applicants have sufficient time to complete their applications during the disruption, the application window will remain open until 23:59 UTC on Friday, 20 April 2012."
Earlier, ICANN planned to reveal a list of all strings that have been applied for on April 30. It is yet unclear how the technical issue with TAS would affect this date.
